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CLTRSCIMS - Clinical Translational Sciences

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Health Professions, Sch ofGraduate Degree SeekingMS - Master of Science

Overview

Program Requirements

Completion requirement

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Completion requirement

Students must maintain a grade point average of 3.00 (letter grade of B) or better to maintain good academic standing, as required to receive financial support and to be awarded the M.S. degree.

Students must complete a minimum of 24 units of coursework toward the M.S. and at least 6 units of thesis.  All courses must be completed at the graduate level, and at least 15 units of coursework must receive regular letter grades (i.e., A, B, C).  A limited number of courses may be transferred from another institution with the approval of the CTS program and the faculty mentor, and presuming the courses earned graduate credit at the home institution with a grade of B or better.

All curricular and other requirements for the M.S. are detailed in the CTS Graduate Program Handbook available at https://cts.uahs.arizona.edu/programs/forms.  Required coursework includes the following:

Principles:

  • CTS 500 (Fundamentals of Clinical Translational Science), 4 units; OR

  • CTS 555 (Cellular, Molecular and Neural Biology), 6 units; OR

  • CTS 501/502 (Principles of Clinical Research I and II), 4 units each; OR

  • CTS 610 (Principles of Surgery) or CTS 620B/620C (Principles of Medicine), 6 total units [postgraduate students only].

Biostatistics:

  • BIOS 576A (Biostatistics in Public Health), 3 units

Professional Development (min. 4 total units selected from list below):

  • CTS 595C (Responsible Conduct of Research), 1 unit/enrollment, taken in one Fall and one Spring semester; AND

  • CTS 585 (Individualized Scientific Writing), 2 units; OR

  • CTS 595D (Professional and Career Training Series), 2 units [post-baccalaureate students only]

Seminar/Journal Club (total 2 enrollments in any combination of the courses below):

  • CTS 595 (Biomedical Sciences Journal Colloquium), 1 unit;

  • CTS 696B (Biomedical Sciences Seminar), 1 unit;

  • CTS 696A (Medical Sciences Seminar, 1 unit [postgraduate students only].

Thesis:

  • CTS 910 (Thesis), total 6 units (can be taken across multiple semesters/terms).

Note:  Substitutions for any of the above except Thesis are allowed with approval of the CTS program and the student's faculty mentor.

Completion requirement

Commonly used elective courses include:

  • BIOS 503 (Introduction to Statistical Analysis using STATA), 1 unit;

  • BIOS 576B (Biostatistics for Research), 3 units;

  • CMM 533 (Molecular Medicine), 1 unit;

  • CMM 535 (Genetic Medicine), 1 unit;

  • CMM 537 (Immunology Basics), 1 unit;

  • CMM 550 (Inflammation and Immune Pathology), 1 unit;

  • CTS 503 (Informatics for Clinical Research), 4 units;

  • EPID 573A (Basic Principles of Epidemiology), 3 units;

  • EPID 573B (Epidemiologic Methods), 3 units;

  • NRSC 572 (Neurodevelopment in Action), 4 units;

  • PATH 515 (Mechanisms of Human Disease), 4 units.

Note:  Students are not restricted to this list of potential elective courses.  Each CTS student works with their faculty mentor to select optimal elective courses relevant to the student's research.

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